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OpenText AccuRev vs TFS comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText AccuRev
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
24th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TFS
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
99
Ranking in other categories
Test Management Tools (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of OpenText AccuRev is 1.2%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TFS is 4.9%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TFS4.9%
OpenText AccuRev1.2%
Other93.9%
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
 

Featured Reviews

Sameh-Hablas - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO - Director General & Founder Ai/ IT Expert - Digital Transformation at Al Danah Information Systems Solutions
Helps us with our compliance goals, native quality management systems and with the legacy systems in our organization
To improve the product, it needs some enhancement to the application's interface to be more user-friendly. The product has all the features that we need and we can depend upon it. My issue with the product is that it is not easy to use without a guide or a proper manual. That is my point. It is not very friendly to use. For example, we may need the application to be more friendly in other sorts of ways. If we have an integrated module that allows access to the features we want through one click, you do not need to make it two or three clicks on the screen. The interface can be better designed to easily provide access to the features you need. The feature I would like to see in the next release is just for it to be more friendly to use and to be like a smart application that intuits your movement through the application. It needs to be something that works smoothly and intelligent without any complicated navigation of screens.
PF
Angular C Full Stack Developer at Great American Insurance
Simplified task creation enhances seamless development workflow
We use TFS for our Agile board to handle our sprints, epics, stories, and tasks, tracking how work is progressing. It is also a repository for managing code changes TFS integrates seamlessly with Visual Studio and Azure Cloud, facilitating continuous integration and continuous deployment, which…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution is very scalable and it's been quite scalable for our organization's purpose."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is taking snapshots while doing the execution of the test cases."
"The product has all the features that we for application managementat a lower cost."
"The most valuable feature is the Business Process Testing feature, BPT, because it brings in the most revenue."
"The solution is 100% scalable. It's much more scalable than the customer's capacity for implementing it. We do plan to increase usage ourselves."
"We have seen a bonified return on investment."
"I have used many solutions throughout my career, but this is the best there is."
"Easy to use on Window platform."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"Work item management integration with source control."
"It helps us respond to our customers' needs in a much faster fashion and saves our customers money in a way."
"It's a good product and it's fulfilled all that I want it to do."
"TFS is very user-friendly."
"A notable feature of TFS is its ease of creating user stories and tasks, which simplifies the process of adding and editing them."
"TFS is used to check source code and revision control, ensuring we do not have to do source control on our own, and as a programmer the product does exactly what I need from it."
"The initial setup was straightforward: creating a new project, importing code, and setting up branches."
 

Cons

"Limited reporting features for management."
"The tool has an issue whereby it restarts its services on its own."
"Because AccuRev is a centralized SCM, Microfocus will always need to work to improve performance relative to distributed SCM."
"In the next release, I would like to have a repository for the code which is embedded. Apart from that, it has everything I need."
"The pricing should be more competitive."
"Stability needs improvement. It has some minor defects that could be improved."
"Source code conflicts are like evil twins."
"My issue with the product is that it is not easy to use without a guide or a proper manual."
"The product access management features and connectivity need improvement. Rights management is also complex and could be simplified."
"There are glitches, such as runners getting stuck, deployments generating errors, and it's becoming outdated."
"Third party integrations could be improved to make it more flexible and easy to use with other platforms."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
"There is room for improvement from reporting point of view."
"TFS should have capabilities similar to Git, like storing all types of artifacts in the repository."
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"I have a list of things on the Visual Studio UserVoice page, but none of them are major."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a lower cost than other top competetors."
"TFS is not cheap."
"Microsoft products are always expensive. Obviously, they are quality products, but it would be helpful if there was a reduction in price. But compared to other vendors, I think the cost is high."
"On a scale where ten is the highest and one is the cheapest, I rate the solution's licensing cost at one on a scale of one to ten."
"It is an expensive solution."
"TFS is on the higher side, but if you intend to use the tool as a complete ALM tool, it will reduce your costs in the long run."
"There is a yearly licensing fee that needs to be paid."
"The overall price of TFS is good."
"It is pretty expensive compared to other project management tools."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Construction Company
17%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise26
Large Enterprise64
 

Questions from the Community

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Which is better - TFS or Azure DevOps?
TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very fri...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TFS?
While I do not know the exact pricing, TFS is likely more expensive than GitLab.
What needs improvement with TFS?
From a testing perspective, while the build and deploy automation capability and pipeline integration are already present to a great extent, these are areas where TFS can improve further.
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus AccuRev, AccuRev
Team Foundation Server
 

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Sample Customers

Akcelerant, SDL, CSG, Avid Technology Inc., Azimuth Systems Inc, Drivecam, Endgame, f5 Networks, Follett Software, Hyland Software, Indanet, Kronos, McAfee
Vendex KBB IT Services, Info Support, Fujitsu Consulting, TCSC, Airways New Zealand, HP
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